People in higher education institutions are increasingly looking at ways of building rich online communities to improve the experience of students and faculty. Such environments can increase the feeling of community, facilitate new connections between people on the campus, better integrate distance ...

The Campus Commons is an integrated online academic community founded by students and coordinators at the University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI), and Holland College (HC), in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The Campus Commons is significant for several reasons. It is the first implem...

This period of unprecedented innovation has introduced profound changes in our modesof communication, distribution, and control. At reduced costs it is offering interestingnew options for networking and collaboration in circles of any size, distributed anywhere.These changes are reconfig...